A belt driven table saw having a open bottom base below the worktable enclosing saw tilting and elevating mechanism and a driving motor mounted outboard of the base has a sawdust collector bag detachably connected to and closing the bottom of the base for collecting downwardly directed sawdust, a centrifugal blower having a casing fixed to the motor and an impeller therein fixed to the motor shaft withdraws fine sawdust from a hinged saw guard and from the base through flexible conduits and discharges it into a second collector bag attached to the blower outlet, a swinging baffle plate and suitable foam rubber sealing means permits maintaining a subatmospheric pressure in the base.